MORE HAULING TO BE DONE.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK FOR ZARDOZ….AND NO THANKS TO MANY EXTRA MILES AVOIDING THE SPEED TRAP THAT IS DISGUISED AS THE BRUTAL CITY OF FORT DODGE, IOWA. ZARDOZ’S BRUTAL SUPERVISOR AT THE GRAIN ELEVATOR, BOB, SUGGESTS ZARDOZ TAKE A COUPLE OF DAYS FOR MAINTENANCE. ZARDOZ IS NOT SURE WHAT ROBBY OR PETE – THE BRUTALS DOWN AT THE GARAGE – ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO WITH GRAVITRONIC DRIVE….BUT ZARDOZ IS WILLING TO TRY.
HOWEVER, THE CHOSEN ONES ARE NOT HERE FOR ZARDOZ’S PETTY TROUBLES. NO, YOU WHO HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM BRUTALITY, ARE HERE FOR LINKS. READ THEM, THEN GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- IT APPEARS TIME FOR MORE HASHTAG ACTIVISM. IT WORKED WELL, IN PAST IF ZARDOZ WAS NOT MISINFORMED. THE TABERNACLE DOES NOT MONITOR SOCIAL MEDIA – TOO MUCH OF A STRAIN ON ITS LOGIC CIRCUITS.
- ZARDOZ DOES NOT WISH TO STEAL FRIEND STEVE SMITH’S THUNDER – BUT THE CHOSEN ONES NEED TO KNOW OF THIS CONDITION. THE CHOSEN ONES WILL REMEMBER THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL, AND SLEEPYTIME ATTEMPTING TO CREATE NEW LIFE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
- ZARDOZ BELIEVES THIS IS THE PLACE FOR HIM TO CITE THE OLD MOVIE LINE “OH, THERE YOU GO BRINGING CLASS INTO IT AGAIN.” ZARDOZ BELIEVES THAT THE VORTEX IS AN ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST COMMUNE.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
THE VORTEX IS AN ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST COMMUNE
Proof that it doesn’t exist and ZARDOZ should just drop the ZARD (after all Iowa is neighbors with Kansas).
That’s a cleansin’
Come at me Rocky!
I could say something about how giant floating stone heads lobbing about Webleys is no basis for government… but that would be stupid, so I won’t.
ZARDOZ BELIEVES THAT THE VORTEX IS AN ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST COMMUNE.
You replaced Arthur Frayn with Noam Chomsky?
(after all Iowa is neighbors with Kansas)
Have you looked at a map lately?
*looks at map*
D’oh! I mean, ha ha!
Thanks, Ted. Someone had to do it.
So I’m not neighbors with the guy 2 doors down?
*squints*
Nope, he didn’t say “next door neighbors”.
The pedant just got pedanted.
You’re lucky I don’t have a turkey carving knife (not to be confused with a regular carving knife, which we all know explodes when used on a turkey).
Somebody is in a shitty mood today, and it isn’t me.
(By your logic, I’m neighbors with Manitoba, because I’d only have to go through Ontario.)
Howdy, neighbor!
Wouldn’t that be Personitoba?
Shhh spoiler alert!
O Mighty Zardoz, I your chosen ursine one is gratified that you have seen fit to grace my once and former home state of Iowa with your presence. My childhood home no doubt benefits from your wisdom. May I ask if you are seeking names of Brutals in that state who deserve immediate cleansing? Because I have a short list…
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN IOWAN ONE. RIGHT NOW ZARDOZ IS DOING HIS BEST TO AVOID THE STATE PATROL AND OTHER LEOS. CLEANSING MIGHT BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR AT THE MOMENT. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
*Sigh.*
How exactly does an Iowa State Trooper (or local if it’s THAT kind of speed trap) pull over a giant floating stone head? I’d love to hear that radio traffic to dispatch.
They just shoot it, like anything else, claiming they’re in fear of their lives, and that ZARDOZ was making a furtive movement.
You been shootin’ at rocks again son?
Tweet of the day, which I only noticed because it was directly above the glibs tweet about the Sunday Evening Links
Other tweet of the weekend, by the always awesome Maggie McNeill
Excellent.
And here’s the award for dumbest tweet.
The Palmer Report is what the left needs right now. Let him speak.
Bill Palmer is doing God’s work right now.
“Foreign dessert?”
Is he talking about picking up a strawberry sundae in Italy or something?
I’ll never get over Tira Misu.
That day…..
Monte Cassava
It doesn’t make much sense since there’s no draft. I guess we should ban 18 year olds from joining the military. Everybody has a ban boner for something lately.
Dobos torte
Sachertorte.
Spotted Dick.
He should just be glad he isn’t in the French Foreign Legume.
Glibs tweet? What the hell is wrong with you people.
I’m with Rhywun on this one.
Also; get. the. fuck. off. my. lawn.
First I heard of it and all I want to know is why they aren’t following me.
What’s your handle?
I have tweeted two or three times and I think my handle is westernsloper. I am not on top of my tweet game.
#BombNigeriaBackIntoTheModernAge
What happens if someone rebels against Zardoz?
That’s a cleansin’.
Great ZARDOZ, I offer to you and the chosen ones the first link in the local dialect.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN PIDGIN LINKING ONE. THE TABERNACLE TRANSLATES STORIES INTO PIDGIN FOR THE BBC, WHEN NOT RUNNING THE VORTEX. EVERYONE HAS A SIDE HUSTLE THESE DAYS. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
McGovern thinks there should be more presenters with regional accents and says there are too many
BBC managersPolitical Class Parasites who don’t know how to reach ordinary people.‘A lot of people in
managementGovernment are from the same background,’ she said.‘We’re talking about ‘How do we represent more working-class people?’ when they themselves are not working class. So how do they know?’
2017 Folk festival in Seattle, reconsidered
Darn shame I missed that one.
Ha
look for the expression on the face of the one black woman, in the upper right hand corner, ~@0:06
she’s looking at the guy with the beaver on his head. she just shakes her head and looks like, “i can’t believe these motherfuckers”
*thunderous applause*
(although it’s still pretty funny with the original sound)
I have survived the rain, mud, lack of cell service, and lack of internet. After all of this, I have returned.
I had the pleasure of getting the final written offer for the new job while having spotty cell service, and got to call my bosses office and leave a voicemail for my two weeks notice. For those who care, (Hi Yusef!) photographic evidence. The Hoop and Stick con raised over $11,000 for the Extra Life charity.
Now to get the girlfriend up to speed on Ash Vs. Evil Dead so I can watch the third season.
*sigh*
A working link.
I’m getting ready to give up now…
https://photos.app.goo.gl/IJuWXKSxe9G0Vzit1
再 (sai) means “again”.
That’s why Raphael carried two of them, right?
Cowabunga!
I got a 404 on that photo.
I blame a 72 hour hard break from the internet. Other then that, I accept my failure.
Congratulations!
Thanks! I managed to score a 20% raise (plus potential bonuses after six months). The only downside to the timing is that I don’t get any slack time between the old job and the new one.
It is nice to have a few days to get in the right frame of mind. BUT, congrats on the new job! Happy for you
Congrats
Just spend the last two weeks on the old job on a bender.
I’m really curious how the next couple of project meetings are going to go. There’s also the entertainment in seeing if my supervisor is going to tell my co-workers that I’m quitting or if he’s planning on leaving it up to me. I’ve already called and talked to the person who will be most effected by me leaving.
Exactly.
What are they going to do? Fire you?
A 20% raise is pretty nice, and probably worth no slack time between jobs.
Congratulations!
Send me some of that new job mojo! I have been unofficially told to expect an offer in the coming week.
**squee**
Oh boy! Good for you Hayek! *fingers crossed*
The company I’m moving over to was going trying to get the offer to me by Wednesday. The recruiter I was working with called me Thursday as the girlfriend and I were heading down to the zone of no cell coverage to let me know they were waiting on one approval and she was being hassled by the tech team daily. The first time they sent the final written offer, it had already expired, so that added another day onto the fun. I was finally able to accept the offer Friday, call to give my two weeks, and then get back to drinking and gaming.
Here’s hoping the offer comes to you quickly, and is for more then you expect.
I would be happy for you, but moving to California. Nope, just can’t muster it.
Nor I.
If I move out of state, I want to go someplace less derpy than New York.
California is derpier than Minnesota (although Minnesota is trying to close the gap) but it sure is warmer. It was 83 degrees there while we were shoveling and blowing snow today.
Other than maybe St. Cloud and Duluth, Minnysoda outside of the Twin Cities isn’t very derpy.
I hope you all appreciate that bit of truth. As a NoDak, saying anything nice about stump-humper land causes me actual, physical pain.
I like having four seasons.
Me too. I’m miserable all summer long, indifferent to winter – but spring and fall are just glorious.
Me as well. I like my summers warm, my winters cold, and my springs and falls in between. I thought I was going to love living in Dallas, but hot and dry gets old. I thought I’d at least be able to tolerate the derpiness of the Bay Area because of the “great climate.” The microclimates were interesting, but I couldn’t imagine living there long-term. Seasons are important.
Me three. Fall is my favorite. Especially those late autumn days when winter is knocking on the door and you get a calm, sunny 55 degree day. Kind of a last hurrah.
83 degrees is too warm.
You’ll enjoy the first season-less year. And then the monotony will set in.
I grew up there and loved it when I hit a seasonal climate (even though some of the time you’d kill for a given season to give it a rest).
I’ll just drive up to the mountains and frolic in the snow, get tired of it, and drive back to the mesas or the beach. I think I’ll be alright.
I also will still be traveling to other states/countries as needed for the job.
Hahaha, that’s cute – you think it snows there regularly. It burns more frequently than it snows.
I hope you get that offer.
I thought you were off to a cool biking event in the rain, mud and wilderness. I didn’t know it was a board game geek dungeon. (J/k) congrats on the job. That is always exciting when it is a step up.
There was a bit of hiking on the first night, when we decided to walk up from our cabins to the castle, which would be fine if it hadn’t been raining. The “trail” was nothing but mud and wet leaves. The girlfriend wound up driving back up and forth the other times. As for the Dungeon, that room was already booked, but is right next to the bar.
Congratulations! Exciting times ahead.
Yep. It does mean that I’ll have less time to hang out here once I start the new job.
“Lawrence Barilli was cleared of raping his partner because he was suffering sexsomnia”
STEVE SMITH RARELY SUFFERS
Is he a lawyer or a cop?
Cathy Newman part 2 this time with Vice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrSrZpX5l8
This asshole had zero respect for Peterson.
Someone who can respond to their BS with calm, measured reason, logic, and fact drives them bonkers.
Jordan Peterson: Somebody had to take the babysitter home. Then I noticed she was sitting on [splice] her sweet [splice] can. [splice] — so I grab her — [splice] sweet can. [splice] Oh, just thinking about [splice] her [splice] can [splice] I just wish I had her — [splice] sweet [splice] sweet [splice] s-s-sweet [splice] can.
Vice: So, Mr. Simpson: you admit you grabbed her can. What do you have to say in your defense?
Jordan: [looking lustful in a clearly-paused VCR shot]
Vice: Mr. Peterson, your silence will only incriminate you further.
[paused shot of Jordan grows larger]
No, Mr. Peterson, don’t take your anger out on me. Get back! Get back! Mist — Mr. Peterson — nooo!
Man: [quickly] Dramatization — may not have happened.
Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_yJ4QhrAaM
TOO MUCH OF A STRAIN ON IT’S LOGIC CIRCUITS.
Too much of a strain on it is logic circuits?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN SPELL CHECKING ONE. EVERYONE IS A CRITIC THESE DAYS. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Not to mention that is Ted’s turf.
I horned in Ted’s turf because using “it’s” instead of “its” is a pet peeve of mine.
Its probably good that you’re making sure it’s grammar is correct.
This place would run a lot more smoothly if you’d all act as though I’m always right.
(Note that it’s beside the point whether or not I’m actually right; just that people act as though I’m right.)
/sarcasm
President Muhammadu Buhari, the 75-year-old former military ruler elected in 2015 after vowing to crush Boko Haram, has described the disappearance of the girls after Monday’s attack in the town of Dapchi, Yobe state, as a “national disaster”.
You’re doing a good job crushing Boko Haram. I think you deserve another term.
Well, he does has them on the run.
Is “posh” British for attractive?
David Beckham thinks so
Who?
Victoria Beckham’s husband.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CELEBRITY NAMING ONE. WOULD THAT NOT BE “MR. POSH SPICE”? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Who?
Obviously, UCS wouldn’t know who the Spice Girls are
But he could cook them in under an hour in his new crock pot that has no crockery.
The guy who like to bend it.
Damn, I lost my ‘s’
I thought that was François de la Peyronie.
Or Uri Geller.
no. “expensive” (for a thing) and/or “upper class” (for a person)
if applied to a person, it usually a bit of a diss, suggesting “pretentious”
it doesn’t translate well to american-english because our rich people (like the Kardashians, etc) are just as gross and crude as the poor ones. whereas “rich” also comes along with a lot of associated class-baggage in the UK.
Shit. I was just gonna call ZARDOZ an asshole to try to get the Sean Connery pistol equivalent of the catbutt, but these links are depressing.
Fuck you, Zardoz.
Dear Great and all powerful, ZARDOZ;
If you really want to piss of Tundra, you should cat-butt everyone except him.
I’m fine with ZARDOZ ignoring me. The links are still depressing.
Like the closing ceremonies,
Wait…not only do you read the links, but you also watched the Olympic closing ceremonies? SMDH
I’m a loser, baby…
RE: the BBC presenter:
When viewers took to Twitter to congratulate her on what they thought was a pregnancy, she quipped: ‘I am not with child, I am with pot belly.’
Speaking to MailOnline, she added: ‘I’d definitely be in the wrong job if I got offended by comments like that. Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly – that’s just life on camera.
See, that’s your problem. You need to be one of those special snowflakes and take offense at stuff like that.
I am surprised anyone noticed her belly. I couldn’t stop looking at her disproportionately large head. I think she is related to ZARDOZ.
The left is enduring a crisis of overconfidence: like any good millennial cult, they’d predicted for themselves heaven on earth. What they got instead was the predictable reality of duopoly politics, with one party taking over after the other had enjoyed its stint in power. So Democrats are learning to recalibrate their expectations, and, predictably, are going about it by raining down condemnation on the awful bigots who couldn’t recognize the genius of their latest five year plan. So much for the Democrats.
The ‘Pubs are another story: this is a party in actual disarray, not in the makebelieve sense Democrats are, in which inevitable Hillary-voting Bernie Bros pretend to take umbrage and Bernie-loathing Hill-bots pretend to resent their votes. Republicans face a daunting schism between disaffected Democrats, freshly shorn of their lefty fleece and out in force, and the decimated vanguard of Republican primary voters who still imagine they control the party, or deserve to.
The right is in a rout, fleeing its conservative principles and learning to embrace leftist concepts of grievance and special pleading. We’re on the verge of much darkness and dissolution, I fear, as the left gobbles up the ground lost by conservatives. Ideals of liberty and restraint and individualism will slough away. Libertarianism is facing its nadir, too: we’ve never been so unpopular as we’ll prove in this new era in which any pretense of subsidiarity, of life aside from the all-encompassing State, is cast off in favor of this cult of grievance-driven self-aggrandizement. We’re well and truly fucked.
OK, so now, what about the bad news?
How long has it been since we had those ideals in government? Maybe early Reagan?
We won’t even get lip service anymore.
Aw, buck up.
Are you channeling Winston?
Eh, I was at the bar reading NRO and feeling unhappy.
I lose, I was betting on Ace of Spades.
ZardoZ, i’m playing Yahtzee and am getting Shit dice, what can I do to improve my score, THE GUN doesn’t help online
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN GAMING ONE. ZARDOZ HAS TOLD YOU ONCE OR TWICE, TO STOP PLAYIN’ CARDS AND A SHOOTIN’ DICE…OR YOU’LL BE IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Hail! ZardoZ!!!
IT APPEARS TIME FOR MORE HASHTAG ACTIVISM. IT WORKED WELL, IN PAST IF ZARDOZ WAS NOT MISINFORMED.
No comment from Michele for that article?
OH ZardoZ, my Win rate is up! Hail! the Mighty Head!
Tres! Rollin Cobras Tonight with a Stout for Dinner! Et tu?
Limbaugh on Letterman in 1993 talking Hilary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoCyrZnRIoI
He killed it with the Pontiac hood ornament bit though.
Wow, some things never change. the audience was Rabid, and He was right
Back then the show producers were kind enough to supply the photos that backed up what he was saying. These days. not so much.
Back then we knew late night talk show hosts leaned left but weren’t total dicks about politics and were actually funny. These days, not so much.
Seriously. A time traveler from as late as the early aughts might come across Kimmel and wonder WTF happened to his country.
Absolutely. I thought Letterman handled it great – even though today he’s unhinged himself when it comes to this sort of stuff.
Now?
Holy shit.
Meyers, Colbert, Kimmel – just terrible.
One of the most bizarre things from the past is when Chris Mathews guest hosted the Rush Limbaugh show. That seems incomprehensible now, times have changed.
Mr. Letterman sure sounded like a total dick when he basically said the people were too stupid to understand the issues.
They were always that way; they just usually hid it better.
(the exact quote was ‘It’s too hard’. It’s at the very end of the video)
They haven’t bulldozed it, yet?
Holding hands with their parents and wearing T-shirts reading “MSD Strong,” thousands of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School stepped foot on campus today for the first time since a teen gunman attacked the school and killed 17 of their classmates and staff members.
As a gate was opened to allow them in, parents hugged their children, some with tears in their eyes and many expressing apprehension about returning to the Parkland, Florida, school they ran for their lives from during the Feb. 14 massacre.
Officials invited all students and parents to return to the school this afternoon for an orientation in which they met with teachers and administrators to discuss plans for resuming classes on Wednesday. Counselors were on hand to help students and parents cope with being back at the scene of the horror.
Embrace your victimhood. Wallow in self pity.
Pfft- that’s what I get for not reading the whole thing.
The building where the shooting occurred, Building 12, will not be reopened. School officials have proposed tearing down the three-story building and turning the space into a memorial park in honor of the victims.
No amount of tax dollars is too much if it can make everyone feel good.
Here’s a puzzle, I found a Furnace that was tripping limit switches, those are the safety shut offs, so it’s important to get it right the first time. I cleared the codes and checked the switches, all was well, but as soon as i put the door on, it gave the same error code, hmmm. I checked continuity from the switches to the Board and found a break from one side of the connector to the other, which is to say, the Plug itself failed, and if you didn’t check, you would have never known,and spun your Brain out trying to fix it. Lesson…. DON’T Panic!
Step 1. Check operation of the switch.
Step 2. Check that power is getting to the switch.
Step 3. Check that when the switch actuates, the power gets all the way back to the controller.
That’s how I do it anyway.
Step 1. Call someone like you or Yusef.
Step 2. Stand over your shoulder and make stupid suggestions.
Step 3. Offer a beer.
That’s how I would do it anyway.
I can tolerate step 2 if step 3 is repeated enough.
Check this hack CBC anchor woman desperately try to find something positive in Trudeau’s absolutely embarrassing disastrous of a trip to India.
It’s lol but very sad at the same time.
‘Yeh but he signed a $1 billion dollar deal!’ Please. The devil in the details reveal it’s not much of a deal. Kinda like how Obama considered a deal to be ‘successful’.
Even better, the woman interviewed said from the beginning it was a ‘colossal failure’ and the anchor later asks if there were any positives. Idiot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6cTL2ttYNs
I want to thank whoever posted that Ozzy Man Review of Fergie’s anthem rendition. It has opened my eyes to a whole world of Ozzy man reviews. The animal videos are my favorites.
it is Good stuff eh?
Totally cracks me up. The accent combined with the ridiculous swearing and animal antics are a recipe for LOLs.
You gotta watch the Dodgy Dolphin
Duly noted.
Dodgy, bottle-nosed, shit ….
See you next Tuesday?
I think my favorite is When Animals Fight Back #3
I just ran across Ice Hockey vs. Soccer. Funny
“I brought you here, I’m sorry about that, but let’s see this thing through.”
Oh my God his utterly unimpressed face. LOL
And early on, he describes holding out hope for the performance as “She could still kick it in the dick.”
I’m an excellent sheriff. It’s those losers I hired and trained who suck.
Israel said before the letter’s release that the agency had stumbled in its handling of red flags about the accused shooter, including multiple warnings that he could carry out such an attack, but that he should not be held personally responsible.
“I can only take responsibility for what I knew about,” Israel said Sunday morning in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I’ve given amazing leadership to this agency.”
The sheriff has faced intensifying questions about his office’s response to the massacre after the revelation that an armed deputy on the scene did not enter the school while the shooter was inside. That deputy, Scot Peterson, retired last week after being suspended.
Israel said Sunday he should not be faulted for Peterson’s actions. “You don’t measure a person’s leadership by a deputy not going in,” he said.
I can’t wait to hear about his book and movie deal.
He looks like a PIG, like, back in the Day PIG, Arrogant POS Typical harasser of Young Men of all colors, Lamp post material, (HI Preet Squad!)
Hey, he has four stars on his collar. He out ranks U.S. Grant at Appomattox and Dwight Eisenhower when he directed D-Day.
Surely, a military genius and an amazing leader!
He should have said he heard Peterson didn’t go in the school in the papers/news like everybody else.
I’m smaht! Not like everybody says, like, dumb. I’m smaht, and I want respect!
I’ve given amazing leadership to this agency.
Yeah, I’m sure all of his subordinates refer to his leadership as amazing.
I mean, it is pretty amazing. Mind you, I’ve described what I’ve found in my daughter’s diapers as amazing from time to time, so it’s important to understand that amazing isn’t necessarily a positive descriptor.
Fuck Isreal and his whole department. Not a one of them should have a job right now.
They should feel lucky they’re not getting lynched.
It’s still early.
One can only hope,.
The very fact that we know about the other deputies filling their tighty-whities outside means they’re gonna be the scapegoats – and hence a firebreak against the brass getting their asses kicked.
I know, it’s not always correct to see police politics thru ‘Dirty Harry’ color lenses, but I think it’s apt here.
Good point. I sometimes forget that all press releases serve a particular purpose, usually not the most obvious one.
One upside to his complete and abject failure is that it’s given people who were clamoring about the gunz some time to reflect on how perhaps it’s possible to prevent these terrible things (if police do their investigative jobs) and that cowardice still has no place in our society.
Some survivors of the attack have said that they understand Peterson’s reluctance to go inside, given that he may have been afraid, while others have expressed frustration at the warning signs missed over the years.
But they also said that most students are focusing their anger on pushing for new gun-control laws rather than blaming anyone for failures leading up to or during the shooting.
Let’s not niggle about the specifics of the particular incident at hand. Let’s just lash out at people who had nothing whatsoever to do with what happened in that place, on that day.
I’m still struggling to understand why I’m supposed to care what these students think. Victimhood does not grant moral authority. Vigilante justice is outlawed for a reason. #believeHer is unconstitutional for a reason.
Victimhood does not grant moral authority.
Heretic! Burn the witch! [points finger, opens eyes and mouth and screeches]
Don’t forget to screech “SHAME! SHAME ON YOU!” repeatedly.
I can’t believe Dana Loesch killed all those kids. Sick.
Vigilante justice is outlawed for a reason
Ha!
Death Wishes,
Charlie Bronson
So… we’re not blaming the kid anymore? The kid everyone knew had a screw loose and nobody did anything about it? OK, carry on, I guess.
He would have never done anything wrong if he hadn’t been able to buy that rifle!
“given that he may have been afraid”. If he wasn’t afraid he’d be an idiot. Giving into his fear while while children were screaming and dieing makes him a coward. For that he deserves our contempt.
Of course that goes for all the cops at every other mass shooting as well.
+17
The sheriff’s department had something in excess of 30 calls to the fucker’s house, but yeah, let’s concentrate on Bass Pro’s culpability in the situation.
“I’m not angry; I understand that things happen,” said Carly Novell, a 17-year-old senior who survived the massacre. “But, really, the only way that it could have been prevented is gun control. It all leads back to the gun. He couldn’t have killed all these people if he didn’t have a gun.”
By all means, let’s give this person the ability to vote.
No; it could have been prevented by rounding up the kids and putting them in concentration camps. If that could save the life of even one child, don’t we have an obligation to try?
This is exactly what I thought when the Lightbringer uttered that phrase.
He couldn’t have killed all these people if he didn’t have a gun
-Bomb
-Knife
-Poisoned cafeteria food
-Carbon Monoxide in the air ducts
-Fire
-A hammer
-A car
-Bow and arrows
There are plenty of ways he could’ve killed 17 or more kids in the “fish in a barrel” situation presented to him.
More people were killed in the Happy Land fire than in any mass shooting in US history.
There’s also the inconvenient fact that gun control doesn’t prevent anyone who wants a gun from getting one. Well, in a state that isn’t completely totalitarian.
That’s really the point I have been trying to get across to my more gun grabby friends. Prohibition doesn’t work.
The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Richard Cowan in 1986 which posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases.
If you want school shootings to start happening with full auto AKs, then gun control is a good idea.
And there’s the rub. Because we already have laws against murder, and we already have a pretty robust set of regulations about who can and cannot own a gun, and Lord knows there are plenty of rules about the kinds of guns you can buy and how and where you can buy them. So, what it comes down to is coming up with a gun ban that not only prevents people who obviously shouldn’t have guns from getting guns, but preventing people who might do something bad with a gun from getting a gun. The only way you can really do that without getting very, very specific is by simply banning private ownership altogether.
Now, as many have pointed out, that’s the preferred state for a lot of the anti-gun crowd. But, leaving aside the issue of guns issued to police being stolen you’ve got the huge problem of all the guns that are currently in circulation with legal owners. To get those out of the picture you’d need mass seizures. For that to be effective, eventually you’re talking about door-to-door searches. For shits and grins, let’s say that actually happens and is 100% effective. You’ve now arrived at the state of affairs in, say, North Korea. You now have to ensure that nobody gets guns on the black market. How in the absolute shit do you do that when you can’t, say, prevent prisoners in supermax facilities from getting illegal drugs? The level of control over your populace that would require is so direct and so perpetual that you would need a police state that exceeds that of the worst that have or do exist in human history.
To prevent crimes that are incredibly rare, statistically speaking. Is that a trade these people, who, bear in mind, believe that Donald Trump is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, are willing to make?
But.. GUNS!!!!
Standard disclaimer: I find violence abhorrent and would never entertain the idea of killing anyone for any reason other than self-defense or the defense of someone else in genuine, immediate harm.
With that said, if I was going to kill a mess of people, I’m going bomb. And frankly I’m going to make every effort to ensure that I am nowhere near at the time and it can’t be traced back to me. Of course, that’s not why these people do these things. So let’s say I want the notoriety. I’m still going bomb. I’m building a shit ton of pipe bombs, filling the fuckers with nails, and chucking them in every classroom I pass. Gun? That takes too long, and I don’t want to bother with aim.
“They never could have overdosed if those drugs were illegal”
“But…they are.”
“SHUT UP!”
Naked man riding stolen ATV arrested following brief pursuit in the Northland
Florida man got lost?
The fuck is a Northland?
The stick I scored my first goal with.
Not Wonderboy?
You can’t fool me, Wonderboy is a Tenacious D song, not a hockey stick.
Cue the Benny Hill theme music…
QFT
“Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they’d all been pushed outta windows?
i often wonder, why aren’t these Mass murders more efficient, If I did something like that, it would be much more Creative, and cause a shitload of Harm, BUT I NEVER WOULD!
/Just Say’n
This propaganda is on right now.
AYFKM?
Putin is Trump on Russian Steroids, (Banned at the Olympics, snort )
Good lord.
Truth! speak it!
Derpy said it well below – Russia is not a threat of any kind. Completely shocked that the History Channel has become another arm of the Democratic Party.
Russia’s economy is 1/16th the size of the US economy. Their military is staffed by demoralized conscripts equipped with 40 year old weapons. Their birth rate is below replacement. 25% of Russian men die before age 55. Alcoholism is rampant.
This is not a country which poses a serious threat to the US.
But but FACEBOOK TROLLS!!!!
and awesome Dash Cam Videos!
Dammit they will not respect our authoritah! For that we must crush them!!!
Imagine if Detroit was a country and had nukes.
That country would be a more functional version of Russia.
I started to watch it (had been watching American Pickers), thinking they’d intelligently cover Putin’s alleged censoring and assassination of journalists, but no, it’s all about Russian interference in the election. Nevermind that the “hacks” to the DNC were merely unsophisticated phishing emails that Podesta was dumb enough to fall for but that the GOP wasn’t. And nevermind that all that wikileaks did was publish the “stolen” emails, thus exposing what dicks the DNC and the candidate were so we could all make up our own minds.
No, that wouldn’t explain why Her Majesty wasn’t crowned. So it has to be Russians.
Eat a bag of d*cks, “History” channel.
Fun fact, Podesta was tasked by Obama to oversee a committee that had cybersecurity as one of its mandates.
I think the Russians paid more attention to the assassinations of Russian journalists than Americans cared about the murder of Seth Rich. Why?
We watched a bit after American Pickers, and my wife didn’t understand why I was so flabbergasted by how terrible it was.
random thoughts
War consists of fighting. Fighting consists of killing, wounding, and capturing enemy soldiers, capturing and destroying their stuff, and forcing them to retreat from their positions.
If an army does not do these things, it is not fighting. And if it is not fighting, it cannot win, regardless of how well-trained or well-equipped its soldiers might be.
Show of Force, I walk up with my Badass Army and say, What are You going to do about it? Human Nature pt.#1299375
Hmm, intimidation only works after an army makes an example of someone. See the Mongols and their skull pyramids.
You’d think Saddam would have left Kuwait after a few throat-clearing noises from the US, but it didn’t work out that way.
Saddam=0
US= shit ton of money and lives
Winner?
The first Gulf War was a decisive US victory. The biggest downside IMO is that US military began to think that all future wars would work out the same way: quick, easy victories though technology and air power.
It was a decisive military victory. It was a humiliating policing defeat, which we still refuse to learn from.
The 1991 Gulf War? We didn’t stick around and police that. We didn’t even march to the capital.
The only big mistake there was the CIA mucking around in the background trying to foment rebellion, then pulling out and leaving the would be rebellion with no support.
The Kurds sure enjoyed the outcome of the war (semiautonomy) and the no-fly zone worked out pretty well.
The UN inspections were shit, but that’s the UN for you.
We kept a small presence in Kuwait, but no big problems came from that.
I’m primarily talking about the exclusion zones after the withdrawal of troops in March ’91.
They were ‘sold’ (certainly to the public in the UK [and I’m sure other countries]) as a mechanism for securing the integrity of the lands of the Marsh Arabs and the Kurds and the expectation (right or wrong) that such a program would suppress movement of materiel around.
UN Resolution 688 was a huge issue to the Europeans, as the first sanction after GW1 to address repression of the Iraqi people – and while it was naturally a criticism of Iraq and not the US, there was a lot of self-examination within the European coalition countries concerning why they’d got involved in the first place.
On reflection over the years, I can’t help wondering whether this hasn’t been instrumental in the progressive erosion of US credibility that we still see today.
Whoops, primarily UNR 700, not 688.
I admit I was a dumb high school kid at the time, then a very busy college student, so I don’t remember/did’t pay attention to all the ensuing events. So I will accept your added info and look further into it when I have a chance to read some decent articles or books (suggestions welcome).
My gut reaction to the 2003 Iraq war was “This is a really bad idea.” I didn’t know why we’d do it. We were already screwing up Afghanistan (not learning from the Brits and the Russkies, i guess). Sure, Saddam was a dick, but not a clear and present danger to the US, and I knew enough to realize that Iraq in 2003 does not equal America in 1776.
Well, that particular element was pulled straight out of my rapidly-addling ancient brain. I probably didn’t help my message by noting that the “policing fail” wasn’t a ‘boots on ground’ fail but the “America as the guarantor of safety” role – which of course, is potentially full of fail anyway.
John Major in the UK came under intense pressure after GW1 because there had been no conclusion, and despite the (very) minor contributions of the UK military, it really did look like the ‘peace’ had achieved nothing AND the neighborhood had got worse. Part of that was British media spin and disinformation, but what really stuck was the perception of an America that was still using us as a disposable FOB with some auxiliary specialists.
Gulf War I was supposed to mean we had finally broken through the pattern as well as the post Viet Nam malaise. Truth is, we got lucky against an adversary that was far less capable than we knew.
Sergeant Zim – Starship Troopers.
“The enemy cannot use a button if you disable his hand.”
I don’t think that was in the book, but it should have been.
Sgt Zim or Invader Zim? I say the latter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0_IlBWSlY
MEDIC!
I love that movie and I don’t care what anyone says.
You want a War? this is how you get a War,
“One of the groups demanding the statue’s removal is the Humboldt State University student group, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanco de Aztlan”
Sorry, but Fuck Mexicans, and MS doesn’t count, sorry, try again….
https://spectator.org/the-power-and-prevalence-of-virtue-signaling/
Maybe they’ll replace it with a statue of his “anarchist” murderer.
I live on his street, damn it! I have a soft spot for the man if for no other reason than he’s part of my address.
random thought
I suspect many of the people who want more gun laws have done things like smoke weed or drink before they were 21 or drive over the speed limit. If they break laws, why do they expect other people to be any different?
There you go again, ascribing logic and reason to people who think with the the heart. And by heart, I mean poorly thought out personal preferences with no consideration for consequences or, for that matter, efficacy.
Perhaps someday I will understand that many people think and act only in terms of “can I get away with it?” and “are my friends doing it?”
Ethics is doing the right thing, when no one is around,……
+1 Ring of Gyges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges
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The Ring of Gyges is a mythical magical artifact mentioned by the philosopher Plato in Book 2 of his Republic (2:359a–2:360d).[1] It grants its owner the power to become invisible at will. Through the story of the ring, Republic considers whether an intelligent person would be moral if he did not have to fear being caught and punished for doing injustices.
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I think, like Kevin Bacon, I would try to watch women shower and stuff, but that’s about it.
I almost admire the cynical savviness of effectively convincing maaany many people that wanting to control them means you just *care* about them that much more.
I think a lot has to do with Parenthood, You Can’t Save the World if your feeding kids. Most forget Youthful indiscretions For The CHIDRENS! and go on to be Drones, Sheep, Morons!
I’m not a parent but the real world does tend to slap you upside the head sooner or later anyway. Until then, people really don’t know anything and aren’t worth taking seriously.
Kids= reality, you have to feed and clothe them, so all of a sudden, Economics comes into play, you either get it, or fail…
It’s not hard, but I know I like good food,Beer and the normal things, gotta work for that, no Fantasy Econ
I suspect that most of them want to be protected, rather than accept the fact that life is hard and you are the only one you can absolutely depend on to protect yourself.
The same applies for financial and medical harm.
So many are Sheep and Depend on the GOV to make all the bad things go away, We are doomed, or win the Civil war without firing a shot….
*sigh*
So, I get back from a stressful drive back from Harrisburg with #6.2, sit down to dinner and start to ‘catch up’.
First thing I get from SWMBO is “I’ve got to say, I support some kind of gun control” (N.B. She’s got a Carry Permit, and she’s a good shot). I’m kinda tired and burned out by the whole sorry story.
Me: *stifled sigh* “OK, fair enough. What kind of gun control?”
SWMBO: “I don’t know.”
Me; …
Tell them your Tired of the subject and have mixed Views, we”l talk later, then never speak of it again..
I’m gonna just go out and by a Ruger Pistol Carbine to distract me from … everything.
Everyone and their Guns, I hope y’all enjoy them, I just keep my powder Dry and buy Guitars,YMMV
/also Broke
Tell her we already have gun control, but for more details view Naptown’s description above of exactly the kind of society that results from for-reals gun control.
Harrisburg, PA? Our weird neighbors to the north, speaking as a Marylander? I learned the phrase “Pennsylvania turn” as a child in reference to someone who turns onto a street and in the process crosses multiple lanes of traffic on either end of the turn. I sympathize.
A lot of well-meaning people get pulled in by the siren song of regulation. I think there’s an understandable temptation to find some magic law that, if passed, would have a minimal impact on gun rights while preventing mass shooting from ever happening. There isn’t one, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t tempting to look for one. The alternative, that sometimes shitty things happen and there really isn’t much you can do about it, isn’t quite as satisfying.
Yeah, I was up at the Farm Expo center. Huge volleyball tournament.
On the guns issue? Not really a major problem. Tell any mom of kids that 4 cops were cowering in fear rather than confront the shooter and you’ve pulled the rug out from under their feet.
The Momma Bear reflex cuts in and the immediate villain becomes cowardice. Pointing out that despite the immediate anger directed towards them the cops are acting rationally and legally can wait for later when I’ve had 12oz of Knob Creek, and some Stilton.
enjoy your beverage, and don’t get too pissed Sir!
12oz of Knob Creek, and some Stilton
At that point they won’t want to be in the same room as you.
“I’ve got to say, I support some kind of gun control”
my response would have been:
laws do not stop crime, they merely define what it is
Sometimes, winning an argument is counterproductive.
Just sayin’.
This. When people say shit like that, I adjust my holster and go about my business.
Strange, isn’t it?
How do you actually Control Guns?
I believe in gun control; I always use both hands.
/old joke
Duh. Standard USGI sling and a pair of hands.
I don’t even debate people anymore unless they are the type who I think will argue in good faith which is very few. I would have just ok.
“Well you’re in luck, sugar tits. America has some kinds of gun control already.”
As I noted, she’s a pretty good shot.
I may be ugly and stupid, but I’m not suicidal.
Sunday night video flashback, what’s old is new again
https://youtu.be/K2QAMqTgPKI
Nice.
Same shit, worse music.
Trevor Horn was a shitbag, but a genius.
Britain’s Phil Spector but with less guns and hookers.
I think Horn has the rights to the entire 80’s decade.
The man really is a creative genius and deserves all the success he’s had.
So I’m listening to 38 Special. The “Caught Up In You” and “Back Where You Belong” kind of 80’s stuff. Is it power pop? I hear common threads with Def Leppard and *shudders* Bon Jovi?
Maybe it’s the bourbon talking, but I feel like I might loosen the notch on the power pop belt. Some early 80’s hard rock is very much starting to sound like power pop to me. Not skinny tie power pop. But like a branch of Big Star that got heavier guitars.
Bourbon.
38 Special https://youtu.be/zg21Rkew874
Great guitars. Want.
I love .38 special and and I couldn’t give a fuck if that kills my cred. Like you say, how can you love this and hate on the Southern-fried pop?
Yeah. Well that’s pretty much a daily listen in my ears. ??????
That is the jangliest of the jangly. https://open.spotify.com/user/egould310/playlist/20QahoaMym4xptW1UNzNpk?si=mycOk9ZbTO6QS7MqzgT7SA
My favorite Spotify playlist. Thanks for doing the work for me!
? I wanna thank you https://youtu.be/YeT7sqdmLh4
I expected this.
Happy to be wrong!
Good cause FAG BAND!!!!
Love ya Tundra, and even Tres
Damn. Can see where The Foo Fighters got the inspiration from.
Big Star influenced a shit ton of bands.
Like these guys.
I’m drinking a Tab and listening to 70’s Coca Cola jingles. Hypocritical, but it keeps the murderous inner demon suppressed.
Things go better with Coke https://youtu.be/_oCp5dV61g4
Never heard that before. Nice.
You’ve heard the singles. They’re ubiquitous. But if you’ve never listened to The Who Sell Out… you simply must. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWHocdv5_oc&list=PL7uWMdNKAHJh9BCscQk_EvfEPi1ofQXz3
Your link brought me to this
But not this?
I’m disappointed, kids.
I’m in this mood,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leoLPWAcwT4
You want some C-O-L-A cola?
? Every year in the 70’s-80’s, Q95 (Indianapolis) would do a “Top 4” greatest classic rock song contest.
Lola
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Stairway to Heaven
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Those were the four greatest songs ever. According to the secretary at radio station Q95.
10:15 already. Got to go to sleep before the youngest one comes in and wakes me up.
it’s only 7:22 Party on!
Much earlier than that. Or much later.
You’re ahead by nine Hours yes?
14 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time (13 hours ahead of Daylight Time). And there’s no way that I only know that because of knowing to calculate when certain anime air.
Thanks to EDG:
I won’t let me.
So good.
Why does the hard-left hate Dianne Feinstein?
Because she exposes them all as idiots?
I mean she is getting primaried. What is it that they don’t like about her?
Because she exposes them all as idiots. She’s been in congress since 1992 and no one can name one thing she has ever done. She’s an old white lady, not for the woke crowd.
She sometimes, in a lucid moment, will say something that does not sound downright idiotic.
I’ve started listening to my Irish music in preparation for the coming Holiday, and THIS SONG made me think of Glibs
fucking weirdo, I love it!
Since I missed MS’s shootout about the best beers around, lemme just say that Bell’s Two Hearted Ale sucks ass. Of course, I’d say that about any IPA.
My fucking brother needs to learn which beers to leave when he goes. Fucker.
When does Secret Nazi President return?
Nothing is ever woke enough. https://mobile.twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/964697251372257281